Gift Wrapping Paper Collage Using Flower Punch

What do you do with all the gift wrapping paper that comes with presents? Don’t you just hate throwing away all that prettiness?

I always store them to reuse. You know how kids love the boxes more than what it holds? That holds true for the covers and bags too! Children love gift wrap. May it be paper or plastic, it is fun to decorate and even more fun to crinkle it to make noise!

We have used it in a variety of ways over the years like crafting and reusing to wrap smaller gifts. I’ve even used it to make an origami box to hold gifts but with little creative kids in my house, I am always looking for more ways my children can use these to learn or play.

As part of a monthly challenge, I’ve joined a group of bloggers this year to play around with recyclable and reusable materials. We are calling it Project Recycle. Every month we choose a material and then we play around with our children to make crafts or do activities involving the chosen material. This month, we are using Gift Wrap. I’ve included the links below of what others have made using it but here is what we did.

My children have been crazy about my flower punch set that I got a last year. We are always looking for more ways to use them so this is what we did. I got my 3yr old and 8 year old to make a collage using these flower punchers and wrapping paper.

This activity is pretty simple to put together and you don’t really need to give your child instructions. Let them use their imagination to make their own art. Of course, you will need to supervise this activity because there will be use of scissors and punchers among other things.

I had two toddlers working with me on this along with my 8 year old and I have to tell you, it was not stressful at all. (Okay so the 2 year old has a mind of her own and she was more interested in the tools than using them but…) We all sat down working with our own material and I guess that minimized the need of sharing. That’s my tip there: Let them have their own stuff. Toddlers cannot share and this isn’t the time to teach them that. 🙂

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Here is how to make a gift wrapping paper collage using flower punch.

Gift Wrapping Paper Collage Using Flower Punch

What you need:

Gift wrapping paper in whatever material you have. We have used paper as well as cellophane type.

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